The FOIA Blog points out that a number of Freedom of Information Act requests (by academics and industry watchdogs) to the FCC to gain access to a directory of U.S. broadband providers have been deined under the exemption for trade secrets/confidential business information. There have been a few times in previous posts where I have …
GigaOM » Forget Neutrality — Keep Packets Private Here’s an article which I think clearly explains one of the important values in the Internet Neutrality debate–the need for privacy (or what others might call nondiscrimination) in the bits of information sent across the Internet. While I’m not sure that packet privacy would absolutely require “deep …
The insanely great songs Apple wont let you hear. – By Paul Collins – Slate Magazine This article gets right at what I’ve said a few times before…there’s a lot of great music hiding on other country’s iTunes sites. The broadband era has made it easier than ever to become exposed to great international music …
I’m finally back after a break between taking preliminary exams…and passing. Hopefully this will be a time to get back into insightful comments on the news of the day. It’s also the first post with the new update to WordPress 2.1 with the K2 theme Release Candidate. After re-tweaking, everything seems to be working well. …
John is a PhD candidate at the University of Wisconsin - Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication. He studies the social impact of media technology law and policy, with a special emphasis on copyright. He also is an instructional technology consultant for DoIT-Academic Technology.
John doesn't update his blog often, and many of the thoughts are probably half-baked. While the web has sort of an eternal memory, the current and future reader is urged not to take all of this too seriously.
Think of this blog as "John thinking out loud."
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